Community . was on January 1, 1990 that Mr. Bean made his television debut on England’s ITV, Rowan Atkinson began developing the type more than a decade earlier, as he was pursuing his master’s degree in electrical engineering. “I was asked during my first term at Oxford to do a sketch on this one-night show in the Oxford Playhouse, and I’d never written anything,” Atkinson recalls inside the Story of Mr. Bean, an attribute on The Whole Bean DVD. “I’m not necessarily naturally a writer, i really just needed to invent type of A few minutes of something at 48 hours’ notice. I simply stood before the mirror and commenced to mess about with my face. Which strange, surreal, sort of...